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Bow Ulenna

Servant to the Queen of the Shapeshifters, and Light to Blade Ulenna. She just wants everyone to be happy!

An empire of shapeshifters, the Erutins value their twin above all. Largely peaceful, they remain prepared for war.

Description

Bow is a cute girl, standing at 5'7" with long black hair often kept up in a ponytail, and big brown eyes that could brighten even the darkest soul. Her garb varies, but she is usually in a white blouse with black pants She doesn't have any earrings or other piercings. Her jewellry is made up of a couple of different bracelets on each wrist, and a simple necklace.

Personality

Bow is your typical light, very shy without her Dark around, or even with, for that matter. She is almost never outspoken, and when she does speak, her voice is always quiet. These may often look like symptoms of an abusive life, but she still has an inner, fufilled glow that will point in the other direction. Besides, if you mentioned such to her Dark, Blade, he would probably kill you. If you mentioned it to her, she would tell him, and he would definitely kill you.

Under that timid surface, there is a strong hearted woman with plenty of life experience with her age. She is not disturbed by violence or brutal injury, because she is, after all, a doctor of three hundred years experience. She looks at everything about living physiology with an academic interest, but without any cold separation. She pools her efforts not into scholarship, but into knowing absolutely -everything- about medical science so she will always be qualified to help anyone. She has gained much of her experience working on members of the Elite Guard, or otherwise, who have been wounded on a mission. Despite being the personal doctor to the royal staff, she has never had to operate on her brother... simply because he has never been significantly wounded in those three hundred years.

She lives a fulfilled life, and has never asked for anything more than she has. She works directly under the queen, in a palace, doing what she loves to with her brother nearby to keep her company. Neither of them have ever seriously approached mating and both are content with that even after so long: this strangely apparent lack of sexual drive has lead many to accuse the twins of inter-familial mating, but both are of course insistent on driving these rumors off... and often violently, in Blade's case.

... and no, they didn't do that, so you can get it out of your head.

When Blade spoke of the Queen's intention to fight for Light / Dark equality in Shapeshifter society, Bow responded eagerly, insisting that she would be allowed to help in any way that she can. While she does not drive for any extra liberties of her own - as Blade has given her far more in that regard than is usual with their kind - she knows all too well the struggles of Light's everywhere, and wants to do everything in her power to fight on their behalf.

She is trained in basic ranged combat by Blade, but has shown a reluctance to learn any advanced warrior techniques despite the rare nature of the offer. She couldn't imagine herself using a weapon to harm another person intently, but she can -and will- use her plasma pistol in self defense if she must.

Equipment

Bow has no real unique equipment to speak of: just her advanced magitechnological Healer equipment, and a quite standard service pistol she usually forgets to carry on her person. She almost completely relies on Blade to protect her, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, considering they have been in close proximity to each other almost constantly since the three hundred and fifty one years ago that they were born. Combat for the most part is an alien concept to her, having spent most of her life in the Royal district on the Shifter homeworld of Erutino, and most of that time in the palace... one of the most heavily guarded places in the entire multiverse.

In that sense, you could say that Blade -is- her weapon, in which case she is indeed very heavily armed.

History

If you are unfamiliar with the Shifter society, please read their section below before reading this history, or little of it will make sense.

Her brother Blade's profile can be found here: http://www.roleplaygateway.com/roleplay/the-multiverse/characters/blade-ulenna/

Bow, and her Dark twin Blade, were both born on Earth three hundred and fifty one years ago. As is Shifter custom, she was tattooed with the symbol of her brother's name upon birth, shown on his profile, and he was tattooed with hers, shown above. She lived two lives as a child: one as a human girl in London, England, and the other at the Shifter Academy colonies on Mars... rapid transit between the two planets was a simple as walking through an enchanted doorway hidden in London. Once her basic time at the Light Academy was finished, she remained unschooled for a while, instead opting to care for her brother Blade and keep a home for him while he worked his ass off at the Warrior's Academy. Although eventually, at his insistence that she not worry about him and to explore what she wants to do, she enrolls in the Healer's Academy, where she spends ten years, followed by six years of work at the main Shifter hospital to Earth, which was ironically again on Mars. Because she had waited so long to go to the academy, Blade had finished his twenty years in the Warrior's Academy before she was done her time at the hospital building up her credentials... and he waited patiently for her to finish before they left Earth behind forever.

The two traveled about the Multiverse, determined to find a place to settle down where both of them could have a job that wouldn't keep them far apart, but still offered a generous pay. They had to turn down many jobs for various reasons; some had too great a distance apart and would separate the twins on too regular a basis, others required traveling that would take the other twin from their own work, and some even had policies in place that allowed the Dark employer to use physical force on disobedient Light employees. They spent years searching and taking crappy, temporary jobs, before finally arriving at the hugely overpopulated homeworld of Erutino, where their luck had finally reared it's face.

Blade had won an entry tournament into the Elite Guard of Queen Rose herself, and with his induction, Bow was asked to the Queen's side to work as Chief Medical Officer to the Throne. She spent most of her time living extremely well within the palace, having a stable job tending to all of the royal staff including Blade's guard unit. The two had their dream jobs, and they were together. That's all that mattered to them.

Since the beginning of her service to the crown, Bow has taken breaks to resharpen her education and get brief leaves of absence where she will attend medical conventions across the Multiverse - with Blade also requesting leave to be with her of course - to learn more and more advanced techniques. Her expertise has become so vast that she even knows how to construct a significant amount of her standard tools, and can synthesize every single form of antidote, medicine and comfort aid by memory. If the patient is still breathing, they will survive if Bow is on the job with the proper tools at hand.

Currently, Bow is travelling with her brother Blade, who is on an assignment from the queen to protect the lone Light Hope Anona, whom the queen believes to be the Light's best chance for true equality.

SHAPESHIFTER SOCIETY ~ Written by Karato ([url]http://www.roleplaygateway.com/karato-u28200.html[/url]), used with permission.

"...Their society was broken, half of it so heavily dependent on the other that it stopped them from advancing further. Parents were having new children with every season, casually abandoning the children they had just had to the care of older kids, if they even cared that far.

Abandoned children raised themselves, til they were older enough to make it to the public Academies. During this bad stretch of time, it's not uncommon for the Light twin to depends entirely on the Dark twin to provide, furthering their interdependence rather than trying themselves.

Academies only teach further interdependence, refusing to teach the entirty of both subjects to both sides of the twinset. Light's often know nothing of birth control, and Darks often do not care to inform them. Indeed, Lights are often taught sewing, and lace making, along with a variety of other topics meant to encourage nuturing. They often know no advanced maths or science.

Abuse is all too common, against children and in future relationships, though it is normally viewed as 'showing love' and 'protecting the Light from themselves.' Unfortunately, this social norm is highly distressing on the society itself. With the constant influx of new cultural information due to the colonization efforts, Lights are quietly beginning to question if this is right, while the Darks remain oblivious. But they are too frightened and timid to instigate the change...."

Education It is generally held that the Dark, as the stronger, more protective, and also more sedate 'leader' of the two is to provide physically for the weaker more excitable Light twin, thought the Light twin often acts almost as a caregiver to the Dark, cooking, cleaning and generally seeing to the Darks more emotional needs. In this way the two balance each other, and really do not understand how to live without the other.

Thus, the Dark Academy of a sector is never more than a half mile away from the Light Academy, and though separate dorms are available, and encouraged, during these years, it is not uncommon to find Light twins making their way to the Dark's room at night, as Lights do not like being left alone.

However, in the event a Dark takes a Warrior job, or a Traveler job, there are dorms available for the Light half of the twinset. This is provided so the Dark twin may never need to worry of the safety of his/her light twin as the Light Compounds and Light Dorms are some of the heaviest guarded places in a Shapeshifter world/colony.

Each shapeshifter is required to take ten years of Basic Education at an Academy and past that will take an apprenticeship to learn a job field if not going in one of the Academy fields.

There are of course as many fields of education in their culture as there are in their culture. However there are several distinct fields that use the Academy system rather than the standard mentorship system used after Basic Education. These fields are as follows:

Medical Healers are an integral part of any society, but especially the accident prone Shapeshifters one. This field is almost exclusively dominated by Lights, though there is the occasional Dark working with his/her Light twin out of devotion. It takes 10 years to master. Bow Ulenna is one such graduate of this academy.

Warrior Warriors are integral to any society, but especially one that is as large and rambunctious as Shapeshifters. Each colony and settlement has a large percentage of warriors to ensure the Laws are followed. This is an exclusively Dark field, with one exception in the form of Hope Anona who is a ten year graduate. She is obviously a fairly recent exception and is never actually used in this field. This class includes everything from the Queen's Elite Guard to the common guardsman on the street. It takes from 5-20 years to master, depending on job field. Blade Ulenna and Snow Anona are both twenty year graduates with glowing honors.

Traveler Travelers are the dimensional explorers of the shapeshifter society and the vanguard of the colonization efforts. It is there job to locate suitable worlds that already have a society set up so that Shapeshifters may infiltrate and slowly overwhelm the native inhabitants by sheer numbers. Though they have their own special Compound in Erutino, the Homeworld of Shapeshifter society, most Travelers rarely even settle in a place for more than two weeks. These are mostly Darks as well. Only after having completed the Warrior Academy can a Shifter go on to become a Traveler. It takes 20 years to master. Hope Anona is a graduate of this academy.

Colonists These shifters are trained to blend in in a variety of worlds with a large variety of different tech levels and environments. Often the world they will travel to is picked at the start of their education, so that they may become highly familiar with their world. Both Lights and Darks enter into the field, often as pairs, and many times after being mated as well. It is the largest Academy and the easiest to enter. The government encourages as many shifters as possible to go there, to the point where it is the only Academy in which you get paid to go. However, because it wouldn't do for shapeshifter to stick out on their new world, they are often limited to the birthing cycle of whatever the dominant species is in that world. It takes ten years to master.

Other fields, are often populated heavily by Lights as many Darks go off the the Warrior class. The Lights however are happy to support their Darks, knowing that each has it's place in society.

Government The Shapeshifter society is a monarchy, with and elected not inherited Noble class, though the Royal family does inherit to the eldest Light. The Queen of Shapeshifters is always the Light of the eldest surviving twinset at the previous Queen's death.

Religion Shapeshifters have a full pantheon of twenty Goddesses, though religion plays a small role in their lifestyles. Still, they do observe a Holy Day on each equinox and solstice, along with a Feast Day for each Goddess.

List of Goddesses

♪ Hinthu - Goddess of light. With Sarllah, she is the mother of Yudh, the sun; Othugli, the moon; and Eiateila, the dawn. ♪ Asihkan - Goddess of intellect and the axis of heaven around which the constellations revolved. Patron Goddess of Light twins. ♪ Shamotulsyne - Goddess of memory and remembrance, and mother of the arts and creative thought. ♪ Sarsail - Goddess of the Earth-encircling river Sarsail, the font of all the Earth's fresh-water. ♪ Urlo - Wife of Sarsail, and the mother of the rivers, springs, streams, fountains and clouds. ♪ Sarllah - Goddess of sight and the shining light of the clear blue sky. She is the mate of Hinthu, and mother of Yudh, Othugli and Eiateila. ♪ Skrona - Goddess of divine law and order. Patron Goddess of Dark twins. ♪ Yshane - Goddess of nocturnal oracles and falling stars. ♪ Matepha - Goddess of stars and planets, and the art of astrology. ♪ Eiateila - Goddess of the dawn. ♪ Kelabha - Goddess of afterthought and the mother of excuses. ♪ Pharaoi - Goddess of the mastery of the seas. ♪ Yudh - Goddess of the sun and guardian of oaths. ♪ Aurnotho - Goddess of renown, fame and infamy, and wife of Nareho. ♪ Pholo - Goddess of air and wind and the hunter's skill of stalking prey. ♪ Phate - Goddess of violent anger, rash action. ♪ Kiathot - Goddess of good counsel, advise, planning, cunning, craftiness and wisdom. ♪ Bostaua - Goddess of destruction and warcraft. ♪ Lona - Goddess of forethought and crafty counsel, and creator of Shapeshifters. ♪ Othugli - Goddess of the moon.

Technology level Shapeshifters have found a way to combine technology with their magic and have space-age technology with the ability to colonize and cross lightyears in short amounts of time. However, they have never seen the point of robots, so have a very small robot population.

They do have Implants used with Travelers exclusively that allow the Travelers to understand and speak in any language as long as the implant is functioning. electricity of any level can knock it out though ambient electricity and static electricity often only destroy the ability to speak and understand a handful of languages. These implants are self repairing and planted onto the brain itself, where it proceeds to integrate with the brain on it's own.

On Lights and Darks

Birth Shapeshifters are never born without a twin. These twins are separated into half, with one named the Dark and the other named the Light. This distinguishment is established solely by birth order. During the birthing process the Dark is birthed first, but the Light is grasping the Dark by the heel as s/he is born.

They are raised together for the first twenty years of their life, before being put in formal education in separate, but always close by, Academies.

It is rare that just one twinset will be born. Shapeshifter produce in litters of up to eight kits or four twinsets. Hope was more in a litter of two twinsets, herself and Snow, and her 'brothers' the Light twin Rain, and the Dark twin Thunder.

Hope's mother, a flighty woman named Feather, gave birth to 747 twinsets before her death in her 98th year of living having given birth from age 23 to age 98, though she died shortly after her last litter was born do to a shifting accident involving a goose form and a hunter. Hope has never met all of her many, many siblings, and doesn't actually know who they may be outside of her own litter.

RELATIONSHIPS

Between Light and Dark

The Light very much is taught that the needs of the Dark go before the needs of the Light, while the Dark is taught the opposite is true. This means that each is highly concerned that the other's needs are well met and so always strives, not for themselves, but for their twin.

A Light will follow her Dark to the end of the Earths if need be, and often follows her Dark's commands without a seconds thought, knowing that her Dark would never order anything that could cause a Light harm. She will back away from any relationship her Dark even vaguely hints at disapproving of.

A Dark on the other hand, often will go out of her way to fulfill any wish of her Light, especially the little reasonable ones. She will defend the Light from all the harder parts of life and cushion her life's journey to the best of her ability, refusing to allow the Light's hand to go to anyone who can not defend the Light well form life's hardships.

Friendships In this, the Light often has a great deal of control, as Dark's tend to be withdrawn creatures. The outgoing Light will cheerfully make friends with Light and Dark alike, dragging her Dark behind her with an unmitigated glee. The only stopping force in this would be a subtle glance, or a word from her Dark which may slow her down or stop her completely, though never for long.

Family Shapeshifter families are not close at all, with the only bond normally being one of blood to the sheer size. While yearmates and littermates may know eachother well enough to jump to each others defense, mostly close family bonds are only formed between the littermates of a season, with a more cousinly bond to the other yearmates.

Romance A Light may seek younger than her Dark would like, but she will not do more than glance at, smile happily, and perhaps make lighthearted conversation unless her Dark allows her too. Often, due to the over-protectiveness of Darks, a Light will have never even kissed until she settles in on her final and normally only relationship. This has led to a very persistent myth among Lights that no one thinks to dispel: A Light can only be with one person their entire lifetime.

Mating Mating is the permanent marriage bond between to shapeshifters. It allows each to maintain a supernaturally level of awareness with each other, always aware of how the other is doing physical and emotionally as well as establishing a telepathic bond between the two. Light's consider this highly sacred, and while Darks appreciate it highly, they don't take the same religious view of the act of mating as Light do, though they tend to agree strongly on the ceremony of mating.

Shapeshifters mate only in pairs, twinset marrying twinset. Because of Hope and Snow's unique situation however, Hope long ago resolved to marry a non-shapeshifter without a twin, as she hadn't found her twin. Now that she has, that may or may not change, depending on her twin almost entirely.

Death An all too common problem, this species has an average lifespan of 95, despite being capable of living well until their 3,000s. Unfortunately, due to the mating bond and the twinbond, the death of just one Shapeshifter takes down their twin, their mate, and often their twin's mate as well.

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Bow Ulenna comes down the stairs with a bright smile, shyly looking about the bar as she decends, as though walking down more slowly will attract less attention.

With bright eyes scanning the patrons out of simple curiosity, she walks over to the bar counter, where she takes a seat. She appears to go through extra effort to make sure she was sat down properly, as though she were worried about her mannerisms.

Although having sat down at the counter, she doesn't try to catch the attention of the bartender.

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Bow Ulenna is relaxing, alone at a table in a quiet corner of the bar sipping casually at a simple apple cider. She looks around to the other patrons of the bar, but is careful not to try to avoid letting anyone catching her looking at them. She seems nervous about something, despite the seeming lack of disruptive action in the bar.

Perhaps, she may be looking for conversation...?

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Bow Ulenna wanders timidly from her seat in the corner back to the bar counter, taking a seat quietly and carefully as though the chair would break should she be too rough with it. She doesn't lean on the counter.

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Bow Ulenna looks up to Norrington, spending a second of simply not knowing how to reply... strange of this man, who didn't appear to work at this bar, to offer her a drink. Or maybe he did? "I... I am." she says shyly.

She appears extremely uncomfortable with her being here for some reason...

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Bow Ulenna 's eyes widen a bit at his offer when he admits to not working there. Well, if he would get a drink for her, she guessed it was okay. "Um... just apple cider for me, please." Her voice is quiet. Rather than stare, her eyes glide around the bar again at the other patrons...

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Bow Ulenna leans forward just enough to get a smell of the bottle opening. "Mmhmm, that's it. Thank you." she nods politely with her thanks.

Mention of his name prompts her to introduce herself. "Oh! My name is Bow Ulenna, Medical Chief to the Throne and Light of Blade." her introduction seemed more memorized as part of her manners rather than boasting. Her expression spoke of the same sentiment.

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Norrington." she says with a kind smile.

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Bow Ulenna nods briskly. "Yes, me and my brother arrived here a couple of days ago. I'm more than glad to meet someone new... even if my brother insists on staying alone for my safety." the last comment trails off into a frown, less of disappointment rather than admittance to something.

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Bow Ulenna 's eyes widen a bit at the question. "In the rain...? No.. I suppose I don't." it seemed a bit odd. Was she perhaps oblivious to some part of the culture, here...? It was likely, considering the cross-road like dimensional location of this planet.

"Although, living in the palace with the Queen there's always plenty of work to do, so I never get bored!" she says with an enthusiastic smile.

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Bow Ulenna nods with a smile. "Mmhmm, there's a lot of people working at the castle, and on top of that I have to keep all of the Queen's Elite squadrons in top shape too. It get's pretty busy in there some times, accidents on top of the regular checkups and paperwork."

"To anyone else, it all might sound boring but... I like knowing that I can be there to help people who need it. On my free time when I'm not working, sometimes I go stop by the Healer's Academy to do lectures." she explains this all quite happily.

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Bow Ulenna frowns, her gaze drifting down and settling on the counter. "Oh... Blade says I can't talk about it too much... but we're here on a mission." She looks up, the cheer quickly refilling her features. "But I told him again and again, I wouldn't let him go one hundred and fifty six dimensions away without me coming along! So I took some of my stacked up leave time and came with him." she says with a brilliantly large smile.

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Bow Ulenna 's eyes widened a bit at his strange request, but she didn't really see anything wrong with it, so after a few moments of hesitating she reached out and gave him a light scratch on the neck as though he were like any other large feline.

She giggled. "You're a strange creature. I see people, and I see cats, and I see people that turn -into- cats, but I've never seen a cat person!"

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Bow Ulenna smiles brightly and continues to scratch him. "I like to turn into a cat once in a while and let Blade scratch me, or I'll do the same for him." she giggles quietly. "He's such a toughie on the outside, but on the inside he's like a big teddy bear."

She grins. "But don't tell him I said that..." she says with a cute wink.

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Bow Ulenna puts her free hand into tapping a finger on her chin. She seemed to have to consider it. "Well, just meeting new people at the Castle, and reading books and stuff... I've had a long time to read, so I've already gone through almost half of the palace library. I love reading." she says happily.

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Bow Ulenna pulled her hand away when he rolled, not sure where he wanted her to scratch anymore now that the front of his neck was out of her reach. Oh well. She put some thought into his question. "I go swimming in the Royal Quarter... some times... but I don't like the rain so much... I mostly just stay inside." She melts into a frown. "Especially thunderstorms. I've been alive for so long and have seen so many, but I never got used to them."

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Bow Ulenna shakes her head. "I don't know why. That's just as I am." she sighs. "I wish I could enjoy them more. I've seen Blade sit out in the rain some times. He says it helps him think... but I hate getting all wet."

Then she smiles lightly. "Maybe it's because I know of over two hundred diseases that only transfer over through water that's come in contact with the host's tissue."

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Bow Ulenna shrugs. "I guess you could think of it that way... but maybe being a doctor's made me paranoid, knowing how many things there are in the Multiverse that can kill you just by getting into your body. It's awe inspiring..."

Then she smiles. "Well, I still don't like getting wet." she reminds him playfully.

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Bow Ulenna frowns at the mention of her mission. "It's only really secret to make our job easier, but I still can't really say much or Blade will get mad." She sighs. "He's really tight about these things, but that's probably the reason the two of us are still okay and breathing at three hundred and fifty one." she says with underlying pride.

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Bow Ulenna sighs, sitting alone, once again, at the bar counter. She takes up her cider, now not quite so cold, that she had left there during her conversation with the cute cat person. It might have been a bit warm, but it was still good. She smiles happily as the sweetness meets her.

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Bow Ulenna finishes her apple cider, getting bored of simply sitting there at the counter. She shifts into a little white furred cat, still on the stool. She hops down, and starts to wander around the room, looking up to some of the patrons out of curiosity... but half hoping she doesn't gain the attention of anyone unscrupulous...

But really, what bad man would bother getting the attention of such a cute, furry kitty?

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Bow Ulenna prances around the bar in the form of a small white cat, having lost much of her timidity after her discussion with the cat person Norrington. Still, she does not openly approach anyone in particular, instead just maneuvering through the bar with her tail swaying contently all the way around....

Would anyone pay the little creature mind?\

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Bow Ulenna hops up onto an unoccupied table with a view of Bowpurity and Lola, tilting her head and swaying her tail at the scene. It was like reading the ending of a cute romance novel, and it made her content seeing such play out right in front of her eyes.

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Bow Ulenna quickly hops off of the table onto a chair as though she were fleeing him, but suddenly, she turns back into her human form with a wide smile of welcoming.

"Hi!" she says gleefully. "I'm Bow too! Bow Ulenna, Medical Chief to the Throne, Light of Blade." She spouted her practiced and memorized introduction quickly and excitedly. Wow, someone with the same name but of another species? She was boggled by the coincidence.